The Can't Wait! List

The comics will be here next week, and this is what I'm most looking forward to, in order:

1. Captain America #29. As almost-always.

2. Green Lantern #22 and Green Lantern Corps #15, as they carry the Sinestro Corps storyline further.

3. Irredeemable Ant-Man #11. Damn, I'll miss this title.

4. All-New Atom #14. You know, I never used to be a big fan of the shrinking hero other than as a part of a team, but here I see two of them on my "Can't Wait!" list.

5. Cable and Deadpool #44. Edging out Birds of Prey for the number five slot because there was a hell of a cliff-hanger last month.

We'll see in a few days whether my predicted fun matches up with my actual fun.

So I'm looking at the above list and noticing that the first two books are there at least in part because of ongoing plot--strong storylines. The rest are books with some humor value. That probably reflects my taste in comics pretty well (and the fact that apparently if a book is funny, I'll judge it less harshly than I will a serious one).

I'm also wondering if I lose any woman-comic-blogger cred because none of the books on the list are female-focused. Well, BoP almost made it, but the only other books on my list this month are She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, and neither of them is edge-of-the-seat stuff lately. I sill enjoy them--wouldn't get them otherwise--but I can't honestly put them on the Can't Wait! list.